Weighted Shortest Job First [eBook]

Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is an useful prioritization technique for organizations to decide which initiatives to fund and how to pick and choose their strategic initiatives.

While it can be usefully used to prioritize traditional projects and programs – it is best suited to environments and organization has gone beyond funding spot project and has matured into having well-formed and high functioning teams – and is now flowing work in a continuous development mode through these teams. This is because – for most organization development capacity is usually far lower than demand – the calculation of the highest value work becomes critical in maximizing the available capacity.